Comic Strips & Cartoons

 
Nick Meglin, Meglin, Nick, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket (corners very sharp, previous owner's name written on the front free endpaper, interior Fine, dustjacket edgeworn with several small nicks and tears), Watson-Guptill, New York, 1973, 1st, 11.25 inches, 8.7 inches, 160 pages, over 150 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

Profusely illustrated interviews with Sergio Aragones, Paul Coker, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Johnny Hart, Al Jaffee, Bob Jones, Norman Rockwell, Arnold...

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The Best Of National Lampoon #4
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VG+ (mild bump to the top of the spine, scrape to the bottom of the spine, slight wear), National Lampoon, 1973, 1st, wraps

The best of National Lampoon from July 1972 through June 1973. With comics by Edward Gorey, Gahan Wilson, Bruce McCall, Rodrigues, MK Brown. Playboy parody....

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The Best Of National Lampoon #5
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Fine, National Lampoon, 1974, 1st, wraps

The best of National Lampoon from July 1973 through June 1974. With comics by Kliban, Gahan Wilson, Bruce McCall, Rodrigues, MK Brown. Parody of Life...

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NF, NCS, 1981, 1st, color wraps

Specialty drawings by Johnny Hart, Bil Keane, Dick Moores, Dik Browne, Bud Blake, Mort Walker, Chester Gould, Milt Caniff, Charles Schulz, others. Text...

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Fine, NCS, 1981, 1st, color wraps

Full page illustrations by Johnny Hart, Dik Browne, Bud Blake, Chester Gould, Milt Caniff, Charles Schulz, others.

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The Comics
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Coulton Waugh, Fine, Waugh, Coulton, Luna Press, 1974, 1st, cloth

A scarce hardcover reprint of the 1947 edition. "...a comprehensive history of comic strips and the artists who have drawn them." The author Coulton...

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The Comics: Before 1945
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Brian Walker, Walker, Brian, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Abrams, New York, 2004, 1st, 12.75 inches, 9.75 inches, 336 pages, 575 illustrations with over 100 color plates, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

From the publisher: In their first five decades, the funnies became an essential part of American life. Comic strip characters - Mutt and Jeff, Barny...

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The Comics: Since 1945
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Brian Walker, Walker, Brian, Very Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (some browning to the white dustjacket), Abrams, New York, 2002, 1st, 12.75 inches, 9.75 inches, 336 pages, 210 color and 566 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Comic strip historian Brian Walker recognized that the majority of histories focused on the early strips (Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Dick...

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The Comics: Since 1945
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Brian Walker, Walker, Brian, Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (upper corners bumped otherwise Fin, Abrams, New York, 2002, 1st, 12.75 inches, 9.75 inches, 336 pages, 210 color and 566 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Comic strip historian Brian Walker recognized that the majority of histories focused on the early strips (Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Dick...

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Brain Walker, Walker, Brain, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket (light shelfwear, dustjacket edgeworn, faded), New York, Abrams ComicArts, 2008, 1st thus, 9780810995956, 12.5 inches, 9.25 inches, 672 pages, 1322 color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English

Out of print. From the publisher: Brian Walker's two comprehensive guides to American comics, The Comics Before 1945 and The Comics Since 1945, are...

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The Comics: The Complete Collection
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Brian Walker, Walker, Brian, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (moderate rubbing to the dustjacket), New York, Abrams, 2008, 1st thus, 9780810971295, 12.75 inches, 9.5 inches, 674 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Hardcover, boards, English

From the publisher: Brian Walker's two comprehensive guides to American comics, The Comics Before 1945 and The Comics Since 1945, are combined here in...

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Very Good+ (top of the spine bumped, upper corners lightly bumped, corners lightly rubbed, mild wear), Jack Kriendler Memorial Foundation, New York, 1950, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 220 pages, 48 illustrations in color and black & white, many other small illustrations, photographs and period advertisements, hardcover, cloth, English

A high-spirited tribute to the "21" with contributions by 60 writers and 42 artists and cartoonists. Full-page illustrations/cartoons by Constantin Ajajalov...

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Very Fine, Bruce Simon, Simon, Bruce, Bruce Simon, 2018, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 80 pages, black & white illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

"A wonderful collection of touching cartoons about man's best friend and man's indifference to said friend." A themed collection of vintage cartoons by...

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Charles Green, Mort Walker, Green, Mort Walker, Charles, Near Fine (light bump to upper corner, front and rear, otherwise very flat, tight, bright), National Cartoonists Society, Greenwich, CT, 1980, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, x, 174 pages, over 650 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English

In the newspaper comic strips heyday, The National Cartoonists Society. For these occasional albums, each member was asked to submit a half-page profile...

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Charles Green, Mort Walker, Green, Mort Walker, Charles, Very Good+ (very light crease at upper corner, front and rear, otherwise very flat, tight, clean), National Cartoonists Society, Greenwich, CT, 1980, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, x, 174 pages, over 650 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English

In the newspaper comic strips heyday, The National Cartoonists Society. For these occasional albums, each member was asked to submit a half-page profile...

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NF (bottom edge shelfrubbed, interior fine), Harper & Bros., 1965, 1st, cloth spine

An extra thick New Yorker cartoon collection.

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Fine/NF price-clipped dustjacket, New York Graphic Society, 1970, 1st, cloth spine

Cartoons on the subject of art and artists!

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Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (moderate wear to dustjacket), The Cartoon Bank, New York, 2007, 1st, 12 inches, 9 inches, viii,158 pages, black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, English

Signed with a self-portrait sketch by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. This yearbook -- never sold in stores -- presents The New Yorker's 342...

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Bob Mankoff, Mankoff, Bob, Very Fine in Fine slipcase in publisher's shrinkwrap, New York, Black Dog & Leventhal/Running Press, 2018, 12.75 inches, 9.5 inches, 1536 pages, 3000 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English

From the publisher: This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by...

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The Penguin Book Of Comics
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George Perry and Alan Aldridge, VG+ (light bump to upper corner otherwise very flat and sharp), Perry and Alan Aldridge, George, Penguin, 1967, 1st, wraps

Published in the midst of the pop art movement, a lively history of the American comic strip (with one chapter devoted to American comic books and another...

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George Perry, Alan Aldridge, Perry, Alan Aldridge, George, Very Good+ (mild wear, musty odor, flat and tight), Penguin, Middlesex, 1967, 1st, 11.3 inches, 8.75 inches, 256 pages, black & white, softcover, wraps, English

Published in the midst of the pop art movement, a lively history of the American comic strip (with one chapter devoted to American comic books and another...

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The Someday Funnies - Signed First
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Michel Choquette, Choquette, Michel, Signed by the author, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, New York, Abrams Books, 2011, 1st, 9780810996182, 16 inches, 12 inches, 215 pages, color and black & white, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

The Someday Funnies is the long-awaited collection of comic strips created in the early 1970s by world-famous artists and writers such as C. C. Beck, Rene...

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Maurice Horn, Horn, Maurice, Fine book in Near Fine dustjacket, Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia, 1999, 9780791048542, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 1062 pages, black & white illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English

Revised and updated through 1997. From the inside dust jacket: When it was published in 1976, The World Encyclopedia of Comics was the first...

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David Gerstein, Gerstein, David, One of 1000 numbered copies, Tiny nick to the bottom edge of the front board otherwise Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Gemstone, Timonium, MD, 2005, 1st, 12.75 inches, 10.75 inches, 360 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Walt Disney's Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse - Vintage Magazine Art 1934-1944 This is one of the Hardcover Deluxe editions--with 10...

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Fine, issued without dustjacket, Seattle, Fantagraphics, 2016, 1st, 9781606999318, 8.75 inches, 10.56 inches, 288 pages, black & white throughout with some color, Hardcover, decorative cloth, English

Time traveler Eega Beeva is introduced in this collection of the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip. Mickey and Eega team up to save Mouseton from the Rhyming...

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Very Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (light wear to the dustjacket), San Diego, Library of American Comics /IDW Publishing, 2017, 1st, 978-1-63140-988-2, 8.75 inches, 12.25 inches, 192 pages, color illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Written by Bob Karp and Merrill DeMaris, and illustrated by Al Taliaferro and Bob Grant. Out of print. From the publisher: This third volume...

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Very Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (dustjacket lightly edgeworn), San Diego, Library of American Comics /IDW Publishing, 2016, 1st, 978-1-63140-718-5, 8.75 inches, 12.25 inches, 220 pages, color, hardcover, pictorial boards, English

From the Disney vaults--never-before reprinted Sunday comics adaptations of popular Disney animated and live-action features! Written by Frank Reilly and...

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Kerry D. Soper, Soper, Kerry D., Very Fine, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2012, 1st, 9781617032844, 9 inches, 6 inches, 240 pages, 50+ black and white illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

From the back cover: Walt Kelly (1913-1973) is one of the most respected and innovative American cartoonists of the twentieth century. His...

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Trina Robbins, Catherine Yronwode, Robbins, Catherine Yronwode, Trina, #443 of 600 hardcover copies with a color illustrated plate signed by Robbins, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Eclipse, Forrestville, CA, 1985, 1st, 11.25 inches, 8.75 inches, 128 pages, over 200 illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

From the back cover: Women and the Comics is the first attempt to document the careers of the hundreds of women who have created and worked in the field...

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Yank
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Steve Kluger, VF/Fine, Kluger, Steve, St. Martin's, 1991, 1st, cloth, English

“World War II from the Guys Who Brought You Victory Irwin Shaw William Saroyan Andy Rooney Walter Bernstein Merle Miller The Original...

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